Year: 2013
Type: preprint
Abstract: WFIRST is the highest priority space mission of the Decadal review, however, it is unlikely to begin in this decade primarily due to a anticipated NASA budget that is unlikely to have sufficient resources to fund such a mission. For this reason we present a lower cost mission that accomplishes all of the WFIRST science as described in the Design Reference Mission 1 with a probe class design. This is effort is motivated by a desire to begin WFIRST in a timely manner and within a budget that can fit within the assets available to NASA on a realistic basis. The design utilizes dichroics to form four focal planes all having the same field of view to use the majority of available photons from a 1.2 meter telescope.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Authors: Thompson, Rodger, Green, James, Rieke, George, Robertson, Dennis Zaritsky. Brant, Schneider, Glenn, Stark, Daniel, Jannuzi, Buell, Ebbets, Dennis, Kaplan, Michael, Gracey, Renee
Institutions: University of Arizona, University of Colorado Boulder
Language: English
Subfield: Instrumentation
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1618065223